The Fortinet Firewall is capable of integrating with the Microsoft Active directory. It can use the following Methods: I. Fortigate FSAE/FSSO This feature provides a transparent authentication for the users. In the older version you can fin it named as FortinetFSAE, but in the new versions it appears are Fortinet FSSO. The Fortigate FSAE/FSSO [...]
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Fortigate Directory Services Authentication
March 25th, 2012 
Daniel Fortigate IPS
March 25th, 2012 Daniel Fortigate IPS – Intrusion Prevention System IPS is a way to stop malicious users to attack your Server/PCs by using exploits or any other kind of attacks. The IPS from the Fortigate uses the following 2 to help you prevent attacks: 1. Protocol Decoders – are used to define abnormal traffic 2. Signatures – it [...]
Fortigate and WCCP
March 25th, 2012 Daniel Web Cache Communication Protocol – WCCP Fortigate is compatible with WCCP protocol version 2 and can be configured on the Fortinet Firewall to optimize web traffic. WCCP architecture 1. Routers (responsible for redirecting to the WCCP Server) 2. Web Cache – cluster of server 3. Service Groups – this is used to identify sensitive [...]
Fortigate Traffic Optimization
March 24th, 2012 Daniel Fortigate is capable of Traffic Optimization, isn’t that cool ? The following are the things that can affect the Network and Application Performance 1. Bandwidth 2. Latency 3. Throughput 4. Congestion 5. Packet Loss The Fortinet Firewall is capable of dealing with all of them by using WAN Optimization Technique: 1. Protocol Optimization 2. [...]
Fortigate Routing
March 16th, 2012 Daniel In this article i will describe some routing capabilities that Fortigate has. Routing Protocols Fortigate is capable of many routing Protocols: 1. Static Routes (not really a routing protocol ) 2. BGP 3. RIP 4. OSPF The Fortigate Firewall has also a Routing table 1that displays all the learned routes and also a [...]
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